Background The Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) program has worked in Ethiopia since 2006 to strengthen the public health supply chain. Increasing the performance and retention of personnel within the organization, and its governmental partners, has been, and continues to be, a priority. Five building blocks that are crucial for achieving these objectives, namely: engaging stakeholders, op...

The Semantic Web journal relies on a non-standard review process which in particular features open and transparent reviews and encourages reviewers to disclose their identities [1,2]. While the continued success of the Semantic Web journal shows that this setup works in practice and is suitable for a high-quality journal, the overhead caused by the non-standard process has been significant, in ...

Nowadays innovation and collaboration are strategic issues for enterprises to remain competitive in the global market. Many new developments are carried out with external partners, including universities and research institutions aiming to generate novel solutions in order to improve business performance and sustainability. However, the balance between intellectual property protection and intel...

This paper identifies the problems of pakistani enterprises concerning supply chain networks and orders solutions to improving its overall performance and competitiveness. Seldom, a non-trivial amount of research efforts has been made in emergent nations to improve and enhance supply chain management paradigm. Our survey comprised nine enterprises; among them four are successfully modelled and ...

A reputation management system (RMS) is a system that helps users in an online community compute reputation of others. One important issue in this kind of systems is how to eliminate effect of unfair ratings. In this paper we make a survey of how people have solved this problem so far. Beside briefly explaining the solutions, we discuss about pros and cons of every solution and the future resea...

Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMS) are often introduced in organizations without careful consideration of their support for organizational business processes. This paper explores the use of ECMS in a Diversification type of organization. A Diversification type of organization is characterized by low levels standardization and integration of business processes between business units. W...

Innovation is a critical ingredient of today’s organizations. Innovativeness helps organizations to maintain their success and position in the market. Numerous research studies examine the factors that impact successful organizational innovation, for example organizational learning capability, organizational structure, etc. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have been widely implemented...

The ISO 14000 and ISO 9000 standards have a positive impact on achieving sustainable and efficient business. The ISO 14001, in particular, is credited with a crucial role of assisting businesses with managing their environmental credentials which are vital in the upcoming carbon economy. This paper explores the significance of ISO 14001 and expands on the possibilities of the use of this standa...

Growing load and deterioration of the environment can be interpreted as a result of some external effects interventions. While the positive externalities influence the positive productional and utilizational functions of other subjects, the negative externalities influence the negative ones. Both types of external effects can act as parcial or global externalities. Linking of environmental issu...

The ICONS (Intelligent CONtent management System) project objectives and contribution to the current state of the knowledge management field is presented. The project represents an ongoing international research effort funded by the European IST research programme. An important aspect of the project is the fact that its inception and the technological platform are based on the industrial softwa...